We Are Not At The Center Of

The First Lesson About Trusting Your Senses Is: Don't. Just Because You Believe Something To Be True, Just Because You Know It's True, That Doesn't Mean It Is True.

Think About The Brain As The Densest Concentration Of Youness. It's The Peak Of The Mountain, But Not The Whole Mountain.

We're Trapped On This Very Thin Slice Of Perception ... But Even At That Slice Of Reality That We Call Home, We're Not Seeing Most Of What's Going On.

If An Epileptic Seizure Is Focused In A Particular Sweet Spot In The Temporal Lobe, A Person Won´t Have Motor Seizures, But Instead Something More Subtle. The Effect Is Something Like A Cognitive Seizure, Marked By Changes Of Personality, Hyperreligiosity (an Obsession With Religion And Feelings Of Religious Certainity), Hypergraphia (extensive Writing On A Subject, Usually About Religion), The False Sense Of An External Presence, And, Often, The Hearing Voices That Are Attributed To A God. Some Fraction Of History´s Prophets, Martyrs, And Leaders Appear To Have Had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.

You Are More Likely To Believe That A Statement Is True If You Have Heard It Before - Whether Or Not It Is Actually True.